These gelatin-silver prints bear the authorized seal of the Paul Strand Foundation. Paul Strand's Portfolio Four is signed by Hazel Strand and accompanied by text written by famed Italian screenwriter Cesare Zavattini. Each print is matted and is sold in a cloth-covered clamshell case.

Paul Strand (born in New York, 1890; died in Orgeval, France, 1976) was one of the great photographers of the twentieth century. As a youth, he studied under Lewis Hine at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, going on to draw acclaim from such illustrious sources as Alfred Stieglitz and David Alfaro Siqueiros. After World War II, Strand traveled around the world—from New England to Ghana, France to the Outer Hebrides—to photograph, and in the process created a dynamic and significant body of work.